As they returned to the bathroom to investigate, the crying girl was gone.

“Going over my story with Sarah, we realized that the girl never spoke and did not want me to give her a hug,” DeLuca said. “Probably because she was a ghost and I would have fallen through her.”

Gaylord has been a site for spooky events as well.

Being a journalism and media major, Tyler Weihe ’13 spent a significant amount of his college career in the basement of Gaylord where the department is located.

Two years ago, Weihe was in the radio station pre-recording a show. The lights were off and the door was closed as he played back audio through headphones.

In the background of the audio, he heard a woman’s voice screaming in the distance.

He listened to the audio three more times, but the voice was never there again. He packed up his things, and didn’t investigate it further. The experience, though, has left him with different ideas about Doane.

“During the day Doane seems like a harmless college in an ordinary small town,” Weihe said, “but other students and my own experiences have convinced me some very scary things go bump in the night.”

Whether or not you believe these stories, the rumors of hauntings at Doane are a part of the rich history of campus. These encounters, no matter how strange, connect generations of students as well as their experiences and keep things at Doane interesting.